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Friday Links: November 13, 2015

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Pigeons Wholesale by Miki J.
Pigeons Wholesale by Miki J.

You can still sign up to be on the waitlist for our four awesome free photography classes next week. Thanks to Knowledge Commons DC for partnering us to offer these fun sessions. We’ll let you know when our next one starts!

  • Carson Davis Brown creates works of art in big box stores without getting permission, photographs the results, and then leaves them “to be experienced by passersby and ultimately eroded by the locations staff.”
  • A photographer was standing on Bombay Beach in California when the mysterious flame (which turned out to be a Navy missile test) lit up the sky last Saturday night.
  • Life inside America’s secret nuclear past. Pictures of Oak Ridge, Tennessee show what it was like to live in a town built to accommodate the workers who helped create the nuclear bomb.
  • For the Kayaw people of the remote village of Htay Kho – and millions from other ethnic groups that pepper Myanmar’s fringes – the November 8 general election is about more than just a fragile peace process.
  • “Meet face to face with the talented people who make Artomatic shine.” This Saturday from 7-10pm is Artists Night at Artomatic.
  • In a remote corner of the Russian Urals region of Sverdlovsk, tiny villages are shadows of their former selves. For the few local residents, a narrow-gauge railway is their lifeline.
  • Mei Xiang watched as her cub, Bei Bei, took his first wobbly steps on Monday. [Video]
  • Her name is “Grizzly 399,” she’s 19 years old, weighs 400 pounds and she’ll soon be slumbering for five months as she hibernates in the mountains of northwest Wyoming. Her many human fans will be anxiously awaiting her reappearance.

Free Photography Classes with Knowledge Commons DC & Exposed DC – November Session

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Students at September's Cleared for Takeoff class at Gravelly Point, taught by Chris Williams. Photo by Angela Napili.
Students at the 2015 Cleared for Takeoff class at Gravelly Point, taught by Chris Williams. Photo by Angela Napili

Ready for another round of free Knowledge Commons DC photography classes sponsored by Exposed DC? We asked some of our favorite, talented photographers to teach a one-week session of fun, informative classes November 14-21. Mark your calendar now, and we’ll remind you when registration opens up on November 6.

Here’s the line-up:

More Free Photography Classes with Knowledge Commons DC!

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Students at September's Cleared for Takeoff class at Gravelly Point, taught by Chris Williams. Photo by Angela Napili.
Students at September’s Cleared for Takeoff class at Gravelly Point, taught by Chris Williams. Photo by Angela Napili

We had such a great time doing our photography classes during Knowledge Commons DC‘s September session that we’ve partnered with them for an exclusive Exposed DC sponsored, one-week-only session!

Join us and our fantastic teachers for classes starting next Sunday, November 16, though Saturday, November 22 – except Monday when we’ll take a break for a joint happy hour at Iota in Clarendon. Register for all our FREE classes here. Folks inevitably drop out, so hit up the waitlist if a class is full and we’ll let you know if a spot opens up for you.

Here’s the line-up at a glance:

Sunday: A Feast for the Eyes – Food Photography with Kristen Finn
Monday: Exposed DC / KCDC Happy Hour!
Tuesday: A Short History of Photography with Diana Sanchez
Wednesday: The Details in the Dark – Low-Light Photography with Kerrin Nishimura
Thursday: Be Your Own Best Critic – Judging Your Own Photography with Yonas Hassen
Friday: Make a Camera Obscura with Diana Sanchez
Saturday: Make Your Vacation Look Better Than it Actually Was Through Photography with Michael Temchine

Free Photography Classes with Exposed + KCDC

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KCDCExposed DC has an exciting new opportunity for photographers! We’re partnering with Knowledge Commons DC, “a free school for thinkers, doers, and tinkerers – taught anywhere, by anyone, for everyone.” We’ve sought out some of our most talented contributors to teach a series of photography classes sponsored by Exposed DC. We’ll have three classes in KCDC’s September 2014 session, and we’ll have more in a special Exposed DC intersession later this fall. (Note: Classes are one day; you’ll have two opportunities for each type of class.) Registration for September will begin shortly – we’ll add those links when we have them, but you can save the date now for the following great learning opportunities:

Street Portraiture with Jim Darling

photo by Jim Darling
photo by Jim Darling
  • Students will learn how to approach strangers in public and take their portrait. We’ll go over fundamentals of portraiture, how to pick a subject, tips to approaching a stranger and asking to take their picture, and composing a great shot. After the discussion, the class will hit the streets to try out what they’ve learned.
  • Location: WeWork Chinatown
  • Wednesday, Sept. 10, 6:30-8:30pm (registration opens Tue., Sept 2) and Tuesday, Sept. 16, 6:30-8:30pm. (registration opens Mon., Sept 8)

Street Photography with Gerry Suchy

photo by Gerry Suchy
photo by Gerry Suchy
  • This course will explore the fundamentals of street photography, its history and how it is different from other types of photography. After a brief discussion of the nature and practice of street photography. I will lead a group of “wanna be” street photographers on a photo walk, pointing out likely subjects and how best to capture that image. The course will require that the student have and be comfortable using a digital or film camera. The person signing up for this course will be someone wanting to stretch her/his creative legs in the area of candid photography in search of the “decisive moment.”
  • Location: Union Station, 2nd floor, top of spiral staircase
  • Saturday, Sept. 20, 10am-12pm (registration opens Fri., Sept 12); Saturday, Sept. 27, 10am-12pm (registration opens Fri., Sept 19).

Photographing Airplanes at Gravelly Point with Chris Williams

photo by Chris Williams
photo by Chris Williams
  • Our class will take photographs of aircraft on takeoff and approach at Reagan National Airport from Gravelly Point. We’ll go through different techniques to create images of aircraft, discuss what lenses to use, appropriate shutter speeds, creating depth of field, and how to be creative with an everyday scene in Washington D.C. Any type of camera is fine as long as you’re reasonably comfortable with it.
  • Location: Gravelly Point (those metroing will meet at Crystal City and walk over together)
  • Tuesday, Sept. 2, 6:30-8:30pm (registration opens Mon., Aug 25); Saturday, Sept. 6, 6:30-8:30pm (registration opens Fri., Aug 29).

Share What You Know Through Exposed DC

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logo_reversedExposed has always considered its mission to connect photographers with opportunities. Our next project will do that two-fold: Giving skilled photographers an opportunity to learn how to teach others, and giving very new photographers a place to learn something new about taking images.

Let’s start with the teachers. (We mean you, so keep reading.) Each of us loves a certain thing about photography that we do all the time. It might be taking pictures of all the luscious things at the farmers market every Sunday morning, or developing your own film, or setting up a tripod at sunset for that perfect Harvest moon photo.

Exposed DC wants you to share that thing you love. We plan to sponsor some classes through Knowledge Commons DC, a “free school for thinkers, doers, and tinkerers — taught anywhere, by anyone, for everyone.” These classes let people in D.C. share their passions with others. In the spring semester, you could sign up for a class on anything from Small Scale Urban Composting, to Intro to American Whiskey, to a seminar on Bruce Springsteen’s “Nebraska” or the lesser known monuments in D.C.

You can teach one of these! You don’t have to be an expert, just a person who’s practiced something enough to give others some great pointers. Our team brainstormed some ideas of skills we’ve seen our photographers display:

  • Taking great pictures of food
  • Techniques at Gravelly Point to catch the airplanes
  • How to make a pinhole camera
  • Macro photos of flowers (teach your class in a public garden!)
  • Working with flash / natural light / low light
  • Working with wide lenses or fisheyes
  • Experimenting with focal length / panning
  • Making sunprints
  • Night sky photography
  • How to market yourself as a freelance photographer

The classes can take place just about anywhere, classrooms or out in the field. They can be highly specific! (KCDC once had a class on manscaping your beard!) Never taught a class? That’s great – you’re the ones we’re looking for! Exposed will help you with as much as you need: Finding a venue, creating an outline, getting any supplies, and of course, promoting the class. You can also limit your class size to whatever you’re comfortable with.

It’s okay if you only have a vague idea; we can help you figure out exactly what the subject can be. The classes will be taught in the fall semester, and we’re open to sponsoring more than one class. We need to know in the next few weeks if you’re interested, but we’ll have a few months to get everything ready.

Interested? Drop us a line!